Put a link to your blog in your sig plz

I take it you have checked all your meta data etc? and have you tried linking to other informative sites of your niche like wikipedia etc and not just blogs?

Also as I think Nic said maybe you should move on to your own domain not a free blog site as that will de much better.

Best of luck on your blog and hope you get to them artical sites you want soon

Are most of the links pointing to your site no follow?

I think no matter with out bond link if you can balance with number of in bound link, even if you sell a link provided that no paid link signs on your site. If you have hugh number of in bound link, check if the link are not quality. Some exp: link from internal page from a site with low PR. This is also happened to me.

get some quality backlinks and also try not to build links too fast

Keep in mind that Google only updates the Google Toolbar to show PR about once per quarter, though they are constantly updating and acessing pagerank it may not be reflected in the toolbar until the next update.

allenion said:"i showing dreaded green bar 2/10
backlinks search
google 42
yahoo 502
live 8660
alltheweb 253
altavista 267
but if you look at these links mainly blogs and multiple entries.
Quality over quantity"

i think those are pretty good stats after less than half a year at it. good advice from people all around. sage advice from allen about quality over quantity, always true, no?
and good luck with the blog - "the real writer is the one who really writes" - marge piercy